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EU Won't Create
No-Fishing Zones

Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Dec. 21, 2004 2:49 p.m. ET

BRUSSELS -- European Union ministers decided Tuesday to disregard proposals to declare huge swathes of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives could be found to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.

The decision was considered a breakthrough for the fishing industry, which was trying to water down the proposals of...